Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.
IRVIN D. YALOMThe pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.
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Look out the other’s window. Try to see the world as your patient sees it.
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Heidegger makes the distinction between being absorbed in the way things are in the world and being aware that things are in the world.
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Marriage and its entourage of possession and jealousy enslave the spirit.
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A focus on this deep dissatisfaction is often the starting point in overcoming death anxiety.
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The act of revealing oneself fully to another and still being accepted may be the major vehicle of therapeutic help.
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If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
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Living safely is dangerous.
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Not to take possession of your life plan is to let your existence be an accident.
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This is what makes us human. But it comes with a costly price: the wound of mortality. Our existence is forever shadowed by the knowledge that we will grow, blossom, and, inevitably, diminish and die.
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Some have expressed the very opposite feeling–the fear that they would not be interesting enough to write about.
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All these things I’ve written so much about. That’s why I’ve made such a practice really, over and over to hammer home the point of self-revelation and being more of yourself and showing yourself. Every book I write I want to get that in there.
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Hidden in disguise, leaking out in a variety of symptoms. It is the wellspring of many of our worries, stresses, and conflicts.
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Every person must choose how much truth he can stand.
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To love means to be actively concerned for the life and the growth of another.
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It’s not easy to live every moment wholly aware of death. It’s like trying to stare the sun in the face: you can stand only so much of it. Because we cannot live frozen in fear, we generate methods to soften death’s terror.
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